Language

Nanotechnology & materials

Ravi Kane

Created a highly potent anthrax treatment in which each drug molecule blocks multiple toxin molecules rather than just one.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Assistant professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Region
Global

He's extending the concept to anti-HIV therapies.

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Darrell Irvine

Crafts nanoparticles that would release chemicals inside the body to "program" immune cells to combat viral infections like HIV, to tolerate transplants, or even to destroy malignant tumors.

Global

Kinneret Keren

Exploits biology-based self-assembly to build molecular electronics. She created a self-assembled molecular-electronic device -- a carbon nanotube transistor -- using a DNA template.

Global

Martin Colpepper

Builds the machines needed to make high-quality, low-cost nanofabrication a reality.

Global

LÆtitia Delmau

Helped solve fundamental problems in nuclear-waste treatment
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